James Weldon Johnson Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: June 17, 1871 - June 26, 1938
Birthday: June 17
Death: June 26
A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.
topic: Country, Race, Lynching
